Interesting turn of events, and quite frankly, I'm glad to see Filoni involved.

Perhaps an older Ahsoka Tano will appear in this series.

I personally hope they try to take a more series tone with the series, but some how the doubt of that eats away more than the Jar Jar Binks episodes of Clone Wars ever could. The Disney ownership is giving us new movies, the partnership with EA will give us new games; the next couple of years will determine whether or not we actually wanted any of it.

Can't they just make a show that doesn't have, I don't know, a Jedi Knight and a Wannabe-Jedi Trainee in the main cast?

Not so long as Lucas has anything to say about it.

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Uchuu Senkan YamoffoMoff
(id: Moff Yittreas)

posted
07-25-14 12:16 PM
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At least Ahsoka and Anakin have justification (...how far we've sunk to make that a positive example). But I guess, the Jedi Purge isn't totally complete now. Which means, in turn...

Nope. Not true, Moff. I wandered onto the forum because my brains were being melted by some drivel my siblings were half watching on TV - and still Rebels pales in comparison.

The animation quality is awful, the "choreography" is boring (the Imperial officer trying to stop them escaping on the speeders is a perfect example: go back and watch, he just stands there), the script is complete and utter tripe sprinkled with faecal matter (consisting of mostly, "Who is that guy?"), the characterisation is already sickening:

Maybe you'd say it was unfair to judge characterisation after 7 minutes, maybe saying, "Come on, ISO, I'm sure they haven't had time to characterise anyone!" Oh, but they have. I've seen all I need to see to realise exactly who these characters are going to be. Like the thug guy: he has about three lines, and one of them is about killing a prisoner.

Very poor. I too really wanted to at least acknowledge this thing's existence, but I refuse to do even that. It doesn't exist. I'm still watching it though.

It's a long road that has no turning - It's never too late to mend.The darkest hour is before the dawn, and even this war must end.

Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster - Widely considered the galaxy's best drink, the effects of which are like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.

~\\*..TheRealMcCoy..*//~

Emissary of the ProphetsClone Trooper
(id: Admiral Zaarin)

posted
08-07-14 11:08 AM
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Look, I'm the Han Solo Jedi! You guys wanted one of those, right?

We already had one, and he was much cooler.

Zaarin | CreatorofCoruscantLifeSEdeviantArt | New Campaign Coming Soon"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”"Most forums derails into talking about memes. Here we derail into in-depth discussions about art. I like ours better."--jssf1992

Uchuu Senkan YamoffoMoff
(id: Moff Yittreas)

posted
08-07-14 11:19 AM
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How about those slow-speed run-overs of the various Stormtroopers. I mean, we don't want the little kid to murder anyone in the first seven minutes... but we need slapstick and to smear egg into the Imps' faces so hard it scrambles itself!

That said, I did like Freddie as Cowboy Jedi. And I'll give Australian Grunt a chance, but only if he does at least one "heh heh heh." These goddamned idiots don't know how much their show would be improved with just a very simple, subtle nod to the superior works their actors have appeared in.

AND I STILL WANT AAYLA TO PASS REX IN THE CORRIDOR IN TCW EVEN THOUGH IT'S OVER

AND I STILL WANT AAYLA TO PASS REX IN THE CORRIDOR IN TCW EVEN THOUGH IT'S OVER

I'm not sure I follow. The only connection I can make between Hale and Dee Bradley Baker is KND.

Zaarin | CreatorofCoruscantLifeSEdeviantArt | New Campaign Coming Soon"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”"Most forums derails into talking about memes. Here we derail into in-depth discussions about art. I like ours better."--jssf1992

Ah, right. That would have been amusing. Even with Aayla's Orlesian French accent. And suddenly I hope Hale is playing an Orlesian in DA:I.

Zaarin | CreatorofCoruscantLifeSEdeviantArt | New Campaign Coming Soon"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”"Most forums derails into talking about memes. Here we derail into in-depth discussions about art. I like ours better."--jssf1992

Uchuu Senkan YamoffoMoff
(id: Moff Yittreas)

posted
08-07-14 09:56 PM
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Well, maybe she'd drop the accent... just for that moment. Not like Filoni would know the bloody difference.

Actually, "Rex" in a French accent wouldn't sound horribly different. The French pronunciation of "general" though is very ear-pleasing. But I really like uvular consonants. /ʒeneʁal/

Zaarin | CreatorofCoruscantLifeSEdeviantArt | New Campaign Coming Soon"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”"Most forums derails into talking about memes. Here we derail into in-depth discussions about art. I like ours better."--jssf1992

Actually, because cross-linguistically our <r> sound is weird, I've noticed a lot of foreigners pronounce it as a /w/ rather than whatever their native <r> sound is--be it /ʁ/ for most French and German speakers, /r/ for other French and German speakers, /ɾ/ for Spanish and Italian speakers...Mostly in Hollywood French accents do French-speakers pronounce American <r> as a guttural. Something, I noted, Hale did correctly. One of the few lines I remember from the entire show: "Quickly! We must go befow we are attacked by mow of the cweatures."

Zaarin | CreatorofCoruscantLifeSEdeviantArt | New Campaign Coming Soon"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”"Most forums derails into talking about memes. Here we derail into in-depth discussions about art. I like ours better."--jssf1992

Uchuu Senkan YamoffoMoff
(id: Moff Yittreas)

posted
08-07-14 10:33 PM
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Hmm... well, she's not Quebecois, but I imagine she at least learned French at one point.

Meer is married to Belinda Cornish, a voice actress who has done work in BioWare games as well, most notably voicing Rana Thanoptis in the Mass Effect series, and Goldanna and The Baroness in the Dragon Age series.

Huh. How about that?

...Though I guess I should save these interesting tidbits for the Ventress novel thread. You know, so we have something interesting to discuss.

Sadly, no chance of Aayla showing up in Rebels. Unless her getting Sonny Corleoned in ROTS was just a flesh wound or fifty. <_<

Hmm... well, she's not Quebecois, but I imagine she at least learned French at one point.

She is canadienne, but yeah, from what I understand she's from Vancouver. Like BioWare. I don't think learning French necessarily helps with a French accent, though; at least not in little things like that. On the other hand, I'm sure being a voice actor, even more than an actor in general, means having a good ear for dialect. I'd never know Hale was Canadian.

Rana Thanoptis in the Mass Effect series, and Goldanna

Ugh, Goldanna. I really hope she got killed in the Blight. >_<

Zaarin | CreatorofCoruscantLifeSEdeviantArt | New Campaign Coming Soon"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”"Most forums derails into talking about memes. Here we derail into in-depth discussions about art. I like ours better."--jssf1992

ISOmetricClone Trooper

posted
08-19-14 09:09 AM
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I feel a little sick. The Stormtroopers are worse than battledroids, the Mando is a non-lethal psychopath (?!?) and EVERYTHING IS BROKEN!

What's more depressing is how gushy the comments were on facebook...

It's a long road that has no turning - It's never too late to mend.The darkest hour is before the dawn, and even this war must end.

Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster - Widely considered the galaxy's best drink, the effects of which are like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.

~\\*..TheRealMcCoy..*//~

Emissary of the ProphetsClone Trooper
(id: Admiral Zaarin)

posted
08-19-14 10:37 AM
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Make it go away! Burn it! >_<

Zaarin | CreatorofCoruscantLifeSEdeviantArt | New Campaign Coming Soon"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”"Most forums derails into talking about memes. Here we derail into in-depth discussions about art. I like ours better."--jssf1992

Uchuu Senkan YamoffoMoff
(id: Moff Yittreas)

posted
08-19-14 11:47 AM
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I still say Sabine is like some kind of human-form Rainbow Dash... but not EQG Dashie.

Dallows and I were discussing a way to do this right. My train of thought took me to a Mando causing a distraction not with spray paint and paint bombs but with a flamethrower and a grenade launcher. Dallows was thinking more along the lines of:

somebody tries dicking around with stormtroopers and rightfully gets shot to pieces

It's a long road that has no turning - It's never too late to mend.The darkest hour is before the dawn, and even this war must end.

Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster - Widely considered the galaxy's best drink, the effects of which are like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.

~\\*..TheRealMcCoy..*//~

Emissary of the ProphetsClone Trooper
(id: Admiral Zaarin)

posted
08-19-14 05:50 PM
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I'm going to side with Dallows on this one.

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Uchuu Senkan YamoffoMoff
(id: Moff Yittreas)

posted
08-19-14 06:38 PM
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...So, the explosion is sufficient to detonate the fuel and ordnance on a TIE Fighter...

But only sprays some paint on the Stormies. Also, the explosion of the TIE doesn't, oh, blow that one trooper's head clear off his shoulders? Really?

Exactly - it shows a shot of paint spattered stormtroopers to put the little kids' mind at ease... before blowing up the entire yard, certainly killing off the troopers inside. They should have been disintegrated in the first place, but that huge boom surely did the job.

It's a long road that has no turning - It's never too late to mend.The darkest hour is before the dawn, and even this war must end.

Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster - Widely considered the galaxy's best drink, the effects of which are like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.

~\\*..TheRealMcCoy..*//~

Uchuu Senkan YamoffoMoff
(id: Moff Yittreas)

posted
08-19-14 07:43 PM
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You made me rewatch it...

There's no second blast after they show the dazed and paint-splattered Stormtroopers. I guess we could assume they're all actually turians and that really is their own blood they're spattered with...

Of course, that taints turians with Star Wars. And Rebels Stormtrooperness. <_<

It's a long road that has no turning - It's never too late to mend.The darkest hour is before the dawn, and even this war must end.

Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster - Widely considered the galaxy's best drink, the effects of which are like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.

~\\*..TheRealMcCoy..*//~

Uchuu Senkan YamoffoMoff
(id: Moff Yittreas)

posted
08-19-14 07:48 PM
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It's so damn... sappy. I mean, if you're making Loony Tunes with lightsabers, fine, do it. But be honest about it. Don't promise us a Picasso and then smear your own feces on the wall and call it done. >_<

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgoDwquiwRM

...The shot-for-shot ripoff of ANH is... ugh. But at least it's not grossly offensive to the intellect and actually has some amusing bits once you've choked down the bile from the casual and obvious ripoff. <_<

The mid-riff baring attitude-filled teenager who is allegedly a good role model?

Zaarin | CreatorofCoruscantLifeSEdeviantArt | New Campaign Coming Soon"But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?”"Most forums derails into talking about memes. Here we derail into in-depth discussions about art. I like ours better."--jssf1992